Get your students practising how to add and subtract fractions with this pack of three differentiated jigsaw puzzles.
The Foundation puzzle covers addition and subtraction of fractions with the same denominator.
The Intermediate puzzle covers addition and subtraction of fractions with different denominators where one fraction needs converting into an equivalent fraction in order to complete the sum.
The Higher puzzle covers addition and subtraction of fractions with different denominators where both fractions need converting into equivalent fractions. Mixed numbers are also included.
All files are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle all about adding and subtracting with negative numbers. Solve the 30 addition and subtraction questions in order to match the 24 pieces together and complete the puzzle. Great for a maths lesson starter or as a group activity for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
A 24 piece Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 questions on multiplying fractions. Simply solve the fraction multiplication questions such as 7/9 x 1/3 and 5/2 x 8/3 in order to match the pieces together and solve the puzzle.
Great as a maths lesson starter or as a group activity for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle all about converting into standard form. Featuring 30 questions across 24 pieces, your students need to match up each number with its standard form version in order to fit the pieces together and complete the puzzle. The puzzle features both positive and negative powers of ten.
Excellent as a maths lesson starter or as a group activity for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 questions on rationalising the denominator. Each question features a fraction with a surd on the bottom which needs rationalising in order to fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Tarsia jigsaws make excellent starter activities for maths lessons and are equally useful as group activities to get students discussing their understanding.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
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A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle all about making x the subject of the formula. It features 30 formulae of the form y = … which require rearranging into the form x = … . Once this is done match each formula up with its rearranged version in order to match each of the 24 jigsaw pieces together and solve the puzzle.
Excellent as a maths lesson starter or as a group activity for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
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Two simplifying algebraic expressions Tarsia jigsaws which require your students to collect like terms in order to simplify each expression.
Each jigsaw puzzle features 30 algebraic expressions spread over 24 triangular jigsaw pieces. Match each of the expressions with its simplified form in order to piece the triangles together and solve the puzzle.
Maths jigsaw puzzles are excellent as a maths lesson starter activity or as a group activity to get your class discussing their understanding as they work together to complete the puzzle. This can be used as formative assessment, allowing you to check students’ progress without setting tests.
This pack features two puzzles:
Puzzle 1 - Beginner: All expressions feature a combination of a, b, c and integers.
Puzzle 2 - Advanced: All expressions feature a combination of x, y, x^2, y^2, xy and integers.
All files are in printable PDF format with answer sheets included.
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A collection of time worksheets and activities covering telling the time on analogue clocks and converting between 12 hour and 24 hour time. Great for Key Stage 1 analogue clock reading and Key Stage 2 converting between 12 hour and 24 hour clocks.
Included are:
Reading analogue clocks - One worksheet on reading time to quarters of hours and one worksheet on reading to five minute intervals.
Fill in the clocks - Three worksheets of varying difficulties from half hour intervals through to five minute intervals requiring pupils to draw the hands on the clocks.
Converting time - Three worksheets involving converting between analogue, digital 12 hour clock and digital 24 hour clock.
Puzzles - One chain puzzle on converting 12 hour clock to 24 hour clock and one chain puzzle on converting between analogue and digital time.
All answers are included in the pack.
12 printable Mathematician of the month posters. Each poster is on two sides of A3 and features pictures, information, trivia and questions on a mathematician who was born in that month.
From people renowned for their maths such as Isaac Newton and Evariste Galois, through to less well-known mathematicians such as Katherine Johnson and G. H. Hardy and people more famous for other things such as Florence Nightingale, each month highlights some of the mathematics of each person along with further information about their impact on the world.
Perfect to put up as a changeable display each month and great for showing pupils that there is more to maths than just arithmetic and quadratic equations.
The posters come as PDF files with two A3 sheets for each mathematician. Each month of the year is included (maybe August could be put up in September).
Addition riddle worksheets for KS2/3. Solve the addition sums to find the answer to the riddle. Great fun for arithmetic practice in primary lessons or an excellent starter activity for secondary maths lessons.
The set includes pdf versions of two addition riddle worksheets of different difficulty levels plus answer sheets.
Given that a=2 and b=5, students need to substitute into the algebraic expressions in order to match up the triangular pieces and form the giant hexagon.
With 30 expressions to substitute into, this activity is a great lesson starter or settling activity and also works well as a group activity for checking understanding of substitution of positive integers into simple algebraic expressions.
The puzzle is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
A 24 piece Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 quadratic expressions and their completed square form. Simply complete the square for each expression to match it up with its answer and complete the puzzle.
Excellent as a maths lesson starter or as a group activity for assessment for learning.
Jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
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Get your students practising their squares and cubes of numbers up to 12 and square roots of different integers with this maths practice Tarsia jigsaw puzzle.
The puzzle features 30 questions where the answer to the square, cube or square root needs to be found in order to match the 24 triangular puzzle pieces into one large hexagon.
Jigsaw puzzles are great as maths lesson starter activities and equally useful as group activities where formative assessment can be done as you listen to your students discussing their understanding with each other.
The jigsaw is in printable PDF format with answer sheet included.
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Get your students practising how to simplify ratios with this 24 piece printable jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 ratios which need simplifying. Match each of the ratios up with its simpified form to complete the puzzle.
Great as a maths lesson starter or even as a group task for assessment for learning.
Files are in PDF format with answer sheet included.
A bundle of the multiplication, addition, subtraction and mixed operations codebreaker riddle worksheets. Solve the arithmetic problems to crack the code and find the answers to the riddles. Perfect for primary numeracy practice or as a starter activity for secondary maths lessons.
The bundle includes 8 number riddle worksheets in pdf format with complete answers included.
Two subtraction codebreaker riddle worksheets aimed at KS2/3. Solve the subtractions to crack the code and discover the answers to the riddles. The riddle worksheets are great practice for Key Stage 2 children and also make excellent settler activities for secondary maths lessons.
Included are two subtraction codebreaker of different difficulties plus full answers. All files are in pdf format.
Five Tarsia puzzles each consisting of 30 expressions to substitute the given values into. The puzzles gradually increase in difficulty:
Puzzle 1 - Two positive values, simple expressions.
Puzzle 2 - Three positive values, simple expressions.
Puzzle 3 - Two positive values and one negative value, slightly more challenging expressions.
Puzzle 4 - Three positive values, expressions involving squares and cubes.
Puzzle 5 - Three positive values and one negative value, expressions involving squares, cubes and brackets.
Perfect as maths lesson starter activities or as group activities to test understanding of substitution into algebraic expressions.
A free sample of 3 printable Maths certificates, each featuring a mathematician or scientist linked to the award. Each of the certificates also includes a picture and biography giving some basic information about the award’s historical figure and listing some of their important contributions to their STEM field.
This pack contains:
The Isaac Newton award for not letting gravity or anything else hold them back.
The Katherine Johnson award for excellent mental mathematics.
The Leonardo da Vinci award for accurate and precise diagrams.
The certificates come as a printable PDF file.
These maths certificates are part of a 50 certificate pack available to buy from the DoingMaths TES Store.
As well as a further 47 certificates covering various mathematical topics and skills, and each featuring a different mathematician or scientist, the full pack also includes PDF certificates in red, white or blue, plus the original, fully-editable PowerPoint file and instructions on how to edit the backgrounds of all certificates.
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Simplify the fractions to complete the jigsaw puzzle in this fun printable maths activity.
Featuring 30 pairs of equivalent fractions over 24 triangular jigsaw pieces, your students need to match the equivalent fractions in order to fit the triangles together into one large hexagon.
Great as a maths lesson starter activity or as a group task during lesson, enabling you to do some formative assessment by listening to your students discussing their understanding while completing the task.
The jigsaw is in printable PDF format with answer sheet included.
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This free sample of Cafe Menu Maths contains the beginner menu and question set from the Cafe Menu Maths pack.
Perfect for practising the use of money with Key Stages 1 and 2, this sample set contains one cafe menu featuring prices in multiples of £0.50 and simple questions about finding the total cost of different orders.
The full pack contains two further menus with prices rounded to the nearest £0.25 or £0.05 and trickier questions for more differentiation plus a bonus table order sheet for pupils to practise adding the prices together to calculate the total bill.
The file is in PDF format.
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